Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars
Game · MS-DOS · DOSBox (js-dos)
The Apogee platformer whose smooth scrolling stunned the PC world in 1990.
Tip: click inside the screen to capture mouse & keyboard; press Esc to release. For v86 systems (FreeDOS, KolibriOS, Tiny Core), the first boot downloads the disk image, so give it a moment.
Details
- Category
- Game
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Year
- 1990
- Emulator
- js-dos (DOSBox), client-side WASM
- License
- Freely-distributable shareware (Episode 1)
- Source
- https://archive.org/details/msdos_Commander_Keen_1_-_Marooned_on_Mars_1990
About
Episode 1 of Commander Keen, released as freely-distributable shareware by Apogee. Its buttery EGA side-scrolling — the work of a young id Software — proved the PC could do arcade-style action, and pioneered the shareware model that funded Wolfenstein and DOOM.